Net profit generated per employee in top pharmaceutical companies 2019

In 2019, Biogen generated almost 800 thousand U.S. dollars’ worth of profit per employee, which was the highest net profit per employee among the global top 18 pharmaceutical companies that year. Net profit per employee data can be used as an indicator to gauge how profitable a company (or industry) is.

Biogen

Biogen is a biotechnology & pharmaceutical company, based in Massachusetts, United States, specialized in developing medical solutions for neurological and neurodegenerative diseases. In 2019, the year Biogen had the highest net profit sales numbers per employee, an average of 7,400 people was working for the company.

Pharmaceutical giants

Today, some of the largest corporations in the pharma industry include Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Pfizer, and Roche, to name a few. Based on market capitalization worldwide, Johnson & Johnson led the list in 2019, with a market cap of roughly 340 billion U.S. dollars. In terms of 2019’s prescription sales numbers, Roche stood in first place with about 48 billion U.S. dollars, while also leading the R&D rankings, spending just over 10 billion on research and development.